Ate lunch but still hungry what to do
TeachergirlCeleste
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So I've been on my diet since December and have lost 34 pounds. I now starting to sense that my body is asking for more foods. Today for breakfast I had 2 boiled eggs a half banana and a baked peanut butter toast. I then ate a smart one meal for lunch an apple and a half of banana. Usually I can endure 2 meals a day but lately my body have been craving more foods. I need to start incorporating a small dinner into my meals. I have tuna and eggs and thinking about making a tuna salad or sandwich for dinner. Please. I need help before I cheat today and I cheated yesterday
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How many calories are you eating a day? That doesn't sound very sustainable imo.6
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I have whole bags of steam-in-bag veggies in order to increase the volume of meals. The non-starchy ones only have ~110 calories per bag.3
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TeachergirlCeleste wrote: »
Weight fluctuations are normal. Restriction will make it worse, due to water and glycogen swings and fluctuations.
So how much are you actually eating?1 -
If you've lost 34 lbs in @ 10 weeks, unless you are over 300 lbs, you need to eat more. You are hungry because your body is begging for food. Please take care of yourself.5
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TeachergirlCeleste wrote: »
The fact that you won't say suggests to me me you are probably seriously under-eating. Doing that long-term is a great way to mess up your health in ways that will take a while to un-do. Your solution to feeling hungry is to eat reasonably.9 -
I'd be hungry too...that's like no food.2
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TeachergirlCeleste wrote: »
How much is not much? Are you consistently hitting 1200 calories? What are your stats?2 -
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TeachergirlCeleste wrote: »
How much is not much? Are you consistently hitting 1200 calories? What are your stats?
I don't keep count. Maybe 6005 -
TeachergirlCeleste wrote: »TeachergirlCeleste wrote: »
How much is not much? Are you consistently hitting 1200 calories? What are your stats?
I don't keep count. Maybe 600
Eat. 600 is nowhere near enough calories.8 -
Under-eating can lead to hormonal issues which can cause water-weight fluctuations which cause your scale weight to fluctuate. So what you are doing to fight against the fluctuations could actually be making it worse.
You know from previous threads that fluctuations are perfectly normal and you have to be patient. You are getting yourself into a very dangerous and unhealthy cycle. Eat more.6 -
yes.. eat more. Look at trends in weight loss. What is the relative low and high weight? Counting is what the diary is for.. and just set the automatic amount. It is a torture test, it is getting healthy in your own skin.0
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Go to the Getting Started board and read the stickies. Learn as much as you can and put it into action.0
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Thanks everyone so I made a tuna sandwich on wheat9
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eat! you need to eat!
ive done it, i tried living on 900 calories b/c some trainer said so, i was miserable! just ask my wife! constantly angry, hungry, tired. I had even less energy.
Please be careful with yourself!1 -
If you are hungry then eat but make it worthwhile calories. You can always burn a few extra calories exercising it off later in the day if the extra numbers bother you. I just give my body what it wants which overtime has become only foods I can actually pronounce without a chemistry degree. Hard to destroy calorie counts eating what comes from the earth.11
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If you are hungry then eat but make it worthwhile calories. You can always burn a few extra calories exercising it off later in the day if the extra numbers bother you. I just give my body what it wants which overtime has become only foods I can actually pronounce without a chemistry degree. Hard to destroy calorie counts eating what comes from the earth.
Did you even read how many calories she is eating? She should be eating at least 600 more a day and NOT burning that off.3 -
If you are hungry then eat but make it worthwhile calories. You can always burn a few extra calories exercising it off later in the day if the extra numbers bother you. I just give my body what it wants which overtime has become only foods I can actually pronounce without a chemistry degree. Hard to destroy calorie counts eating what comes from the earth.
Did you even read how many calories she is eating? She should be eating at least 600 more a day and NOT burning that off.
Over my time here I've found it to be counter-productive to tell people how to adjust their specific calorie counts because they will almost never listen until they figure out what they need to live life healthy without thinking about counting every little number. It generally just turns the thread into a complete cluster with some people saying eat more or eat less or chew on air so I just keep it to eat if you are hungry but try to eat clean if you can and if you are so stuck on numbers go for a walk.13 -
If you are hungry then eat but make it worthwhile calories. You can always burn a few extra calories exercising it off later in the day if the extra numbers bother you. I just give my body what it wants which overtime has become only foods I can actually pronounce without a chemistry degree. Hard to destroy calorie counts eating what comes from the earth.
Eating enough calories is more important for the OP than putting any more silly food rules in place. This is utterly bad advice for someone who's showing red flags both in this post and others as developing disordered eating patterns. Foods with long names are less scary than drastically under eating. The OP needs to eat more of any kinds of foods, from the ground or not.6 -
So what would be the best foods0
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TeachergirlCeleste wrote: »So what would be the best foods
Anything, especially items to help get in enough fat/protein. @diannethegeek put together an excellent list here: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10142490/a-list-of-calorie-dense-foods1 -
She has found some success as 34 pounds is an amazing accomplishment but right away I saw a major flaw in the post and I am surprised that no one else brought it up: The word diet. We should be encouraging her to make life changes to seek out long term success and health rather than spending too much time on the calorie counts as a central focus point. She is either playing starvation roulette with her health, being medically supervised to be running the number that low (not unheard of for diabetics in recent studies), or she will get an earful from her doctor when her next set of blood counts come back and will hopefully make needed adjustments in her life at that time. My point is to hopefully encourage her to take a step back and realize that her body is asking for something and say the unpopular thing on this board which is to eat when you are hungry and if you are so desperate to account for the extra calories then go for a walk.3
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I don't know about you, but I love grapefruits! I don't feel guilty when I indulge!2
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Right now pick something from the school vending machine and log it. Going forward carry some energy bars to work. They are portable. If you want to limit the calorie load cut them in half.5
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TeachergirlCeleste wrote: »So what would be the best foods
As low as you currently are, eat something that makes you happy. Going forward, remember that food is fuel for your body to do all the important things it needs to do. You want to eat plenty of nutritious foods, but you don't have to eat all "healthy". When I was losing, I made sure I fit in a treat or something that was just yummy every day. To lose weight, it's the calories that count, but too low and your health will suffer.1 -
craziirabbitz wrote: »I don't know about you, but I love grapefruits! I don't feel guilty when I indulge!
Don't encourage someone who is only eating 600 calories to view eating as a reason to feel "guilty," or to view eating an appropriate number of calories as "indulging."6 -
Seriously, eat. You can get away with very low calories for a while, but then your hair will suffer and then your muscles. And your heart is a muscle!
Try some lean protein like roast chicken or pork loin, it sounds like you are already eating plenty of fruit. Some grains and legumes are also good for staying full.1 -
I would suggest you bump more protein and fat to your later in the day meal (not all fat is bad, there are good fats! Olive oil and avocados are my go-to fatty food items and they are both full of the "healthy fat" that your body needs to function). Then add a greek yogurt (full of protein) with some granola on top (full of fiber) as an evening snack or before bedtime. Be sure it's not one of those filled-with-artificial sweetener "light & fit" yogurts, those actually make you crave junk food because they are too "sweet". Look for a 2% fat greek yogurt with about 120-150 calories. I like the fruit on the bottom type the best. Then find a granola you like, my favorite is Love Crunch Dark Chocolate Macaroon on pineapple or black cherry greek yogurt:
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Nature-s-Path-Organic-Love-Crunch-Dark-Chocolate-Macaroon-Premium-Organic-Granola-11-5-oz-Pack-of-6/42371381 (yeah it's scary on the label, but you won't be eating a whole lot of it, just 1 serving a day as part of a healthy snack - and it will satisfy all your cravings)
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Chobani-Greek-Yogurt-Pineapple-Fruit-on-the-Bottom-Low-Fat-Yogurt-5-3-oz/21291508
If you're hungry in the middle of the day right after eating a meal, first, wait 15 minutes (sometimes when we are really hungry we woof down our food so fast that our bodies don't know we've eaten so we still feel hungry until the body catches up), then, add a protein shake. My favorite is https://www.walmart.com/ip/Bobs-Red-Mill-Protein-Powder-Nutritional-Booster-Chocolate-32-Oz/190137860 made in almond milk (I often make half-servings in a cup and a half of almond milk, I find that's a better ratio and the chalkiness is less noticed if you only use half a serving in a little extra liquid). I add two tablespoons of https://www.walmart.com/ip/Nestle-Ovaltine-Chocolate-Malt-Flavored-Milk-Additive-12-Oz/15580508 (this also comes in a plain chocolate flavor if you dislike malt) plus a serving of https://www.walmart.com/ip/NOW-Real-Food-Beef-Gelatin-Powder-1-lb/146981524 along with a swig of vanilla extract. Every single time I have finished dinner and still had a craving, one of these shakes took care of it. It's rich, filling, chocolate and sweet, and it has none of those gross-tasting chemical artificial sweeteners.
I get a lot of flack here for my low calorie consumption too, and I understand where you are coming from, BUT, 600 calories is seriously not enough to survive. Like as in, you can't sustain human life on that, for real. Your body's muscle is being consumed just to keep you alive. I know you think "but I have all this fat!" but unless you eat enough calories, you will NEVER lose it, because your body is being told, by your restricted diet "I'm starving" and so it is responding by say "KEEP ALL THIS FAT! WE NEED IT OR WE WILL DIE!" By actually eating more calories, you will send a message to your body that says "Hey, we're not starving anymore, so we don't need to keep all this fat around, we can actually burn some of it for fuel!" and your body will switch from eating up your muscles to eating up some of that stored fat. You probably can't tell your body is eating your muscles if you have a lot of fat covering them, but I'm sure you're tired and you feel like every step is a chore - that's because your muscles are suffering under there! You can't starve yourself and lose weight that will stay off. I want to stress that. You will lose weight, BUT, you will rebound and put it ALL right back on because you're telling your body that it needs to adapt to survival mode, so as soon as you lose all that weight (by actual starvation - that's technically what you're doing) and you tell yourself "OH thank god, I can have that pork chop now!" and begin to eat a "normal responsible" amount of food, you will plump up like the grain-fed market sow ready for the butcher that you just ate! You have to get your body out of "save all the fat, we're starving!" mode and into "Oh hey, we're not dying, we can utilize some of this stored fat for energy" mode BY EATING (and exercising - which you'll actually have the energy to do if you eat!). Eat. For real. It's seriously OK. Eat healthy foods, eat small portions, but don't starve yourself, you're not going to accomplish your goals that way, you're just going to be miserable, tired, hungry, and then one day you'll just be fat again. It's a losing battle. It's called the yo-yo diet. You crash diet off all that weight, and it just slams back onto you.2 -
If you are hungry, eat...just eat stuff that's good for you!0
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